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2-3 mm. long; floral leaves subtending the umbel, 5, smaller, 

 pseudo-verticillate, patent, unequal in size, the outermost one 

 about 2i-3 cm. long and the innermost one about 1^-2 cm. 

 long in flower. Umbel 5-rayed; rays (peduncles) erect-patent, 

 about 1-2 cm. long in flower, slender, terete, viridescent-purpu- 

 rascent, forked only at the tips; bracts 2, opposite at the top 

 of the rays (peduncles), sessile, deltoidly rhombeo-subrenilbrm, 

 obtuse at the apex, broadly truncate at the base, entire, about 

 7-10 mm. long and 11-13 mm. broad in flower, erect-patent or 

 spreading, flabellately veined, herbaceous, viridescent and shaded 

 with purple; 2nd bracts 2, much smaller, opposite and sessile at 

 the top of the 2nd rays (pedicels), rhombic-oval, about 5 mm. 

 broad. Involucres about 4 mm. long, 5-6 mm. across, sessile 

 at the top of the peduncle (ray) or pedicel (2nd ray), subtend- 

 ed by the opposite bracts, carapanulato-turbinate, membrana- 

 ceous, glabrous on both surfaces, 5-lobed ; lobes small, distant 

 each other, subsquare, retuso-truncate at the apex, membrana- 

 ceous, glabrous dorsally, puberulent towards the margin inter- 

 nally, rose-purpurascent; glands 4, spreading, transversely lunate 

 or lunato-reniform with obtuse short points, thick, 2|-3^ mm. 

 long, viridescent then flavidulous, glabrous but minutely puberu- 

 lent on the inner side. Male-flowers many, exserted ; pedicel 

 linear-filiform, glabrous, at first viridescent then white ; filament 

 much shorter than the pedicel, glabrous ; anther didymous, 

 yellow; anther-cells rounded; scales among the male-flowers 

 linear-subulate, glabrous, pale, 1-1^ mm. long. Female-flower 

 exserted, higher than the male-flowers, nutant ; pedicel stout, 

 terete, smooth, glabrous, light green; ovary globose, smooth, 

 glabrous, light green, scarcely 3-lobed and scarcely 3-grooved, 

 1| mm. across, 3-celled, 1-ovuled in each cell; styles 3, stout, 

 connate at the base, recurvo-erect-patent, viridescent-purplish, 

 very shortly spread ingly 2-fid with minute viridescent short- 

 ovate obtuse lobes, hardly longer than or about as long as 

 the ovary. 



Nom. Jap. Sendai-taigeki. 



Had. Prov. MUSASHI (S. N.uto! 1913, 1914); Prov. IWAKI 

 (N. iMAi ! 1913). 



